New Jersey Lt. Gov. Resigns After Sex Harassment Claims

By George Woolston

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale G. Caldwell has stepped down following an independent investigation conducted by Lowenstein Sandler LLP that determined he sexually harassed a staffer's friend and sent inappropriate text messages, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Friday.

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Atlantic City's Cannabis 'Point Man' Charged With Bribe Scam

By Dorothy Atkins

Prosecutors have charged an Atlantic City, New Jersey, public official and school board member with multiple criminal counts, alleging he helped a cannabis business circumvent five-figure fees as the city's cannabis "point man" in exchange for cash and cannabis bribes and the business owner physically assaulting a critic.

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Detractors Tell Court Paramount Deal Fails To Fix Concerns

By Matthew Perlman

Civil rights and public interest groups have told a California federal court the settlement ending a challenge of Paramount Skydance's purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery fails to address the concerns state enforcers raised in the first place.

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Del. Chancery Bars Ex-CareOne GC's Fee Advance Claim

By Hailey Konnath

CareOne's former general counsel cannot get an advancement of legal fees and expenses after his former employer sued him, Delaware's Court of Chancery has ruled, noting that the lawyer is asking the court "to enforce the very right he was instructed by his client to eliminate" a decade ago.

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Supreme Court Revives DHS Voter Citizenship Database

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The Trump administration can reinstate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's upgraded citizenship verification database ahead of this year's midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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3rd Circ. Backs Pa. Milk Bond Law In NJ Cheese Co.'s Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit has upheld a Pennsylvania law requiring milk distributors to post an annual bond to the state, rejecting a New Jersey cheese seller's claims that the rule unfairly restrains interstate commerce.

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Brightline Florida To Continue Operating While In Ch. 11

By Vince Sullivan

Florida's Brightline rail service will continue operating during the Chapter 11 cases of its parent entities, as they pursue a restructuring of more than $1 billion of bond debt with the support of its creditors.

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Unions Urge 2nd Circ. To Back Reviving Uber, Lyft Driver Law

By Katherine Smith

A group of unions and workers' rights advocates has asked the Second Circuit to lift the block on a municipal ordinance banning Uber and Lyft from kicking drivers out of the app without a formal notice or an investigation, claiming the district court was wrong to stop the law.

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Unilever Says Web Safety Pledges Can't Support Benzene Suit

By Aaron Keller

Unilever is urging a Connecticut federal judge to toss a consumer class action alleging benzene contamination in dry shampoos, arguing a plaintiff can't rely on statements that appeared on websites, not product labels, to support the case after a $3.6 million deal was torpedoed.

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Balancing The Scales: Concealed Carry, 'Weird' Arguments

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Eleventh Circuit ruled that police spotting a gun protruding from a defendant’s pocket wasn’t enough to trigger reasonable suspicion in Florida, a state where concealed carry is treated as presumptively legal, and the Fifth Circuit rejected a “weird” argument from a person convicted of being a felon in possession. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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Real Estate Recap: Mideast Data Centers, NYC Amenity Race

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into how the war in Iran is affecting Middle East data center deals and how an amenity race is steering the New York City office market.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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